knoll
Collocations
4ADJ.
grassy, hollow
VERB + KNOLL
hit
KNOLL + NOUN
hillock, rears, rifle
PREP.
on, with
Definitions
noun
A small mound or rounded hill.
On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
In the northern hemisphere, June 21 has the most daylight hours. Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll.
A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
noun
A knell.
verb
To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]
To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church.
The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]
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Idioms & Phrases
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6On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
WiktionaryIn the northern hemisphere, June 21 has the most daylight hours. Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll.
WiktionaryIf ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
WiktionaryFor a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]
Wiktionary[A]ll that night I heard / The heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
WiktionaryWe used to play over by that grassy knoll.
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